Hair-curling device



- Patented Mar. 13, 1923:.

* ST i s ATENT OFFICE.

zlve POPIN', or NEW YORK, n. Y.

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Application filed may 17, 1919, Serial No. 297,765. Renewed July 20, 1922. Serial No. 576,355.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ZIVA POPIN, residing at New.York, in the county and State ofwhich is intended primarily for use with apparatus' designed to produce what is known s a permanent curl or wave in hair upon t e head.

Another object of the invention is to pro vide a device of the'above character upon which the hair may be easily and conveniently Wound, and which will hold the hairthereon in a tightly wound condition.

Other objects and aims of the invention, more or less specific than those referred'to above, will be in part obvious and in part pointed out in the course of the following description of the elements, combinations, ar-

rangements of parts and applications of principles, constituting the invention; and

the scope of protection contemplated will be indicated'in the appended claims.

In the accompanying drawing, wherein I have illustrated. a preferred form of embodiment of my invention:

Figure 1 is an elevational view of my-improved device.

Figure 2 is a similar view, showing the parts in open position; and

Figure 3 is a sectional view taken on line 3-3 of Figure 1.

Before proceeding to describe the structural features of my invention, it may here be noted that the device which forms the subject matter of this application is designed primarily for use in what is known as Marcel waving. Heretofore this waving has been accomplished by means of the or-. dinary form of heatercurling'iron, which,

while satisfactory in so far "as the quality,

of the wave produced is concerned, does not. operate to impart to the hair a wave having the characteristics of what is known as the permanent wave, that is to say, awave which will stand shampooing and will lastfor an indefinite period. By theuse of my device, however, I am able to impart to the hair a Marcel wave to be ractically permanent, in a convenient and acile manner.

Referring now to the drawing, wherein similar reference characters refer to similar parts through the several views thereof, the reference numeral 1 denotes the curler proper, the same comprising a circular rod preferably bent in the form shown, so that it will conform to the shape of the head, that 1s to say, the concave side will lie in close engagement with the part of the head. in

which is located the hair to be treated. The concave part 2 of the curler is provided with a groove 3, which is adapted to receive a clampingrod 4:,whic'h is pivoted as at 5 to one end of the curler 2. This rod when in normal osition lies in the groove 3, as clearly sl iownin Figures 1 and 3.

Pivoted upon the opposite end of the curler 2, at 6, is a holding member 7, having ahook-shaped outer end8 which is adapted to embrace the end of the curler 2, to which the clampin rod 4 is attached, as clearly shown in Flgure 1. It will be noted that both the clamping member 4 and the holding member 7 are curved to conform to the curvature of the curler ,2.

In the use of my device the end of a selected lock or tuft of hair is caught between theclamping member 4 and the curler 2, the clamping member 4, of course, being closed upon the end of the tuft or look so as to clamp it'between itself and the curler 2, the holding member 7 being of course moved to an open position. The device isthen rotated to roll the hair aboutthe curler 2 of the clamping member 4. That is to say, the

device is rotated by the fingers of the operator so that the entire lock or tuft of hair is wound about the curler beginning w1th the outer end and extending inwardly toward the scalp. The holding member 8 is then moved to the position shown in Figurev 3, thereby clamping the coiled hair and preventing the hair from becomingunwound from the curler. Ifjdesired, metallic points 9 may be provided uponthe holding member 7, which aid in themaintaining of the hair upon the curler.

It will accordingly be seen that I have provided a construction welladaptedto at- .tain, among others, all the aims and objects pointed out, in an exceedingly simple 'yet efiicient manner.

As many changes could be made in this construction without departing from tlle scope of the following claims, it is intended that all matter contained in the above description or shown in the accompanying drawing shall be interpreted as illustrative mg and not in a limiting sense. aving thus. described. my invention what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is: I v

1; A device of the class described, comprising a curler formed of a curved rod, a clamping member pivoted to one end thereof, a holding member pivoted to the other end thereof, said clamping and said holding members conforming to the shape of the curler, and said holding member being proboth of said elements, and a holding-member pivoted to the opposite end of said curler adapted to engage the coiled hair having a hook-shaped end adapted to engage the end of said rod opposite its point of pivotal connection.

adapted to lie in said recess, a holding member pivoted to the 0 posite end'of said rod,

and having means or engaging the end of the curler opposite to which it is pivoted,

whereby the hair upon the curler maybe fixedly held in position.

4. Adevice of the class described, comprising a curler'formed of a curved rod having a recess/in its concaved side, a clamping member pivoted to oneend of said curler adapted to lie in said recess, a holding member pivoted to the opposite end of said rod, having means for engaging the end of the curler opposite to which it is pivoted, whereby the hair upon the curler may be fixedly held in position, and said holding member being provided with aplurality of points adapted to engage the hair.

In testimony whereof li aflix my signature witnesses.

in the presence of two ZlIVA POPIN. Witnesses:

' LE0 M. EISENBERG EMMA WEINBERG. 

